Butterworths Stone's Justices' Manual 2011

Butterworths Stone’s Justices’ Manual is relied upon each year by thousands of professionals to provide the most reliable and current coverage of the legislative changes affecting magistrates’ courts.

With the accompanying CD-ROM, Stone’s provides comprehensive coverage of all existing, new and amended legislation affecting the magistrates’ courts and hundreds of new cases that set precedents or clarify particular principles of law.

Butterworths Supplement to Stone’s Justices’ Manual is also included in the subscription price, published in October. Butterworths Supplement to Stone’s Justices’ Manual 2011 is a valuable addition to the Stone's service, with recent cases and legislation included, as well as updated and new commentary on relevant changes to the law of the magistrates' court.

Fully cross-referenced to the main work, the Supplement ensures your Butterworths Stone's Justice Manual 2011 is updated with the latest developments.

As part of the subscription an updating CD-ROM is provided in October.

What’s new to Stone’s Justices’ Manual 2011:

• Courts and procedure - Retention of Knives in Court Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/790)
• Important amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules made by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2010 (SI 2010/1921) and the Criminal Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2010 (SI 2010/3026)
• Family law - Family Procedure Rules 2010 (SI 2010/2955) and related practice directions which comprise a radical reform of family procedure and among case law the important decision of the Court of Appeal in A Local Authority v KAB [2010] EWCA Civ 871 (interim care orders)
• Consumer protection - Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010
• Licensing - Semple v Luton and South Bedfordshire Magistrates' Court [2009] EWHC 3241 (Admin (ejecting a customer from licensed premises); Prasannan v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2010] EWHC 319 (Admin), 174 JP 418 (exercise of power to award costs in licensing matters)
• Prisons - R v M [2009] EWCA Crim 2615 (criminal liability for bringing in prohibited articles into prison)
• Public health - Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/675 amended by SI 2010/2172)
• Public order - R v W(N) [2010] EWCA Crim 404 (affray, meaning of ‘present together’); R v Sheppard [2010] EWCA Crim 65, (publishing threatening etc material on the internet)
• And many more case amendments from Extradition to Costs

Why Stone’s Justices’ Manual is essential:

• Authoritative – commentary by Paul Carr, District Judge and Adrian Turner, Barrister, accompanies the statutory material so you understand the content easily and feel confident advising your clients
• Accurate – an October supplement (paperback and CD-ROM) of Stone’s Justices' Manual with new cases, legislation, commentary and cross-referencing will keep you up-to-date throughout the year
• Portable – Stone's Justice's Manual CD-ROM features hyperlinks, cross-referencing, court forms and transcripts
• Comprehensive – statutes and SIs are set out in full and relevant forms are included
• Time saving – Stone's Justices' Manual 2010 contains reference pages to direct you straight to what you need by listing the topic, statutory provision and numbers of the relevant paragraphs in the manual

Stone's Justices' Manual 2011 CD-ROM includes: 

• The entire contents of the main work with hyperlinks to cases from the All England cases and statutory material
• The full text of relevant criminal cases from All ER
• The Directory of Magistrates’ Courts from Atkin’s